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Sen. Dodd's New Banking Bill Would Reshape the Financial World

...ht and Government Reform. Greenspan was testifying before Congress in the wake of the housing crisis, problems with the creative structuring of financial derivatives, the credit crunch, record bank fa...

Seen that? - Hope for Africa?

...video preview, American businessmen are going to help African social entrepreneurs help the medical crisis, through franchising. [...] Read More Microfinance, defined at Aud...

Stuntprijzen? Doe maar niet!

© timparkinson Als ondernemer kun je – zeker in mindere tijden – snel geneigd zijn om stuntprijzen te gaan hanteren. Het uurtarief gaat drastisch omlaag voor bepaalde klussen, of producten worden nog net niet onder de inkoopsprijs verkocht. Toch heeft dit helemaal geen zin. Uit onderzoek...

Stuntprijzen? Doe maar niet!

© timparkinson Als ondernemer kun je – zeker in mindere tijden – snel geneigd zijn om stuntprijzen te gaan hanteren. Het uurtarief gaat drastisch omlaag voor bepaalde klussen, of producten worden nog net niet onder de inkoopsprijs verkocht. Toch heeft dit helemaal geen zin. Uit onderzoek...

Stuntprijzen? Doe maar niet!

© timparkinson Als ondernemer kun je – zeker in mindere tijden – snel geneigd zijn om stuntprijzen te gaan hanteren. Het uurtarief gaat drastisch omlaag voor bepaalde klussen, of producten worden nog net niet onder de inkoopsprijs verkocht. Toch heeft dit helemaal geen zin. Uit onderzo...

Stuntprijzen? Doe maar niet!

© timparkinson Als ondernemer kun je – zeker in mindere tijden – snel geneigd zijn om stuntprijzen te gaan hanteren. Het uurtarief gaat drastisch omlaag voor bepaalde klussen, of producten worden nog net niet onder de inkoopsprijs verkocht. Toch heeft dit helemaal geen zin. Uit onderzo...

Bankers expect bonus pay records

Some things never change. Around the world, politicians and voters are furious about the massive payouts and bonuses for bankers. But no matter what controls are put in by the G20 and governments, the gravy train continues with the latest Bloomberg poll finding that almost three in five...

Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game

It wasn't that long ago that I was warning the commercial real estate market in the United States looked likely to trigger a new mortgage crisis with a soaring delinquency rate and building owners struggling to finance the massive loans they took out when the market was booming. What's ev...

Too big to fail is too dumb

The US government is moving on financial firms that are "too big to fail" and where the government has no choice but to "rescue" them when they get into trouble. Its plan is to make it easier for the government to seize control. The Financial Stability Improvement Act needs to be consi...

Over-valued S&P to tumble and the double dip recession.

Is the stock market over-valued? Can we expect it to fall again? In an interview with the Financial Times, which I blogged about here , billionaire financier George Soros warns that we can expect a contraction. "I think certainly there could be another dip in the stock market because, right...

Twitter 开发新功能阻止用户发送重复信息

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Dubai can't meet debts

Every time I have been in Dubai, I always feeling that it's a bubble and that it will sink back into sand. In the past, I have looked at Dubai's vulnerability to the recession because of its dependency on real estate, tourism, trade and financial services, the sectors that have really take...

Rich getting richer

Yes, the global financial crisis has reduced the amount of global wealth by 11.8%. In the United States, wealth has shrunk by 21.8% to US$29.3 trillion compared to 2007. But the picture is a lot more complicated than that. Some have lost a fortune but at the very top, there are people rak...

Bankers' cocaine binge

To what extent can the market's failure be blamed on cocaine? According to this alarming news report , there was a clear link between the heady trading during the boom and snorting. And professionals in the detox business in London say they've been flooded with calls since the financial cri...

Chamber of Commerce versus Apple

Last week, I did a blog entry looking at how corporations were leaving the US Chamber of Commerce because of its stance on climate change. This week, it was Apple's turn. It left the chamber of Commerce with Catherine A. Novelli, vice president, Worldwide Government Affairs of Apple sta...

Heroes Season 4 : Ep. 3 - Acceptance

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California - America's first failed state?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's regime keeps lurching from one disaster to the next. California's lawmakers are looking to revamp the budget but according to this news report , the budget might be looking okay now but it will create a disaster in 2010-2011 because it was using a raft of accou...

Security breaches up in 2009

A confluence of circumstances have led to an explosion of security breaches in corporations over the past year, according to a study by Canadian security researchers. The number of breaches tripled the 2008 findings in a survey of 600 Canadian IT security professionals. The report also indicates ...

Hyper inflation on its way?

Get used to the end of low inflation. Prices are going up and we seem to be headed for a period of hyper-inflation, reminiscent of the 1920s in Germany when you could paper the walls with money. Come to think of it, the Germans would know given their history. That's why earlier this month,...

Swine flu "could kill millions"

... But the question is whether the developed world will have enough funds. Since the global financial crisis, the coffers aren't nearly as full. Governments around the world are struggling with defi...

Pay cuts or jobs losses for half of America's workforce

Yesterday, I did a blog entry questioning Bernanke's claim that the recession was over and suggesting that most Americans wouldn't believe him. If you need further evidence, check out this alarming ABC News-Washington Post poll showing that 41% of US households have had their pay o...

No one believes Bernanke

Investors might be cheering with US Federal Reserve chairman declaring that the recession is over, but they should take a deep breath and wait. It's not over yet. If the recession is well and truly over, why is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warning that une...

Nothing learned from Lehman collapse

On the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, President Obama will be calling for quicker action on financial reforms. But will it have the desired effect? That's unlikely. Wall Street has not changed at all. As Stevenson Jacobs from Associated Press reports, risk taking fo...

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A big week for the US economy

Next weeks marks the anniversary of the turning point in the US economy with collapse of Lehman Brothers. And it's a big week ahead this week. In fact, this could be the make or break week for US stocks with a whole series of events scheduled for the next few days. CNN reports that on Mo...

Banker lived it up on foreclosure

Hats off to the Los Angeles Times for bringing us the story that while the mortgage crisis has resulted in people losing their homes and banks closing down, there is one executive at Wells Fargo who has been living it up in the crisis. According to that story, Cheronda Guyton, a Wells Fargo ...

Will the dollar be replaced?

Gold and oil are now the hot commodities and that's driving the US dollar down to new depths. Oil has now moved past $71 a barrel and gold is now pushing to $1000 an ounce and is tipped to stay there. Investors are now headed for the safe ground, and they're selling out of the US d...

Crisis valt mee voor freelancers

...kt het hier maar te gaan om een kleine minderheid en weten de meeste freelancers zich, ondanks de crisis, prima te redden. Dit komt met name door de diversiteit; tegenwoordig kun je in iedere sector w...

Freelance ICT'ers hebben het moeilijk

© carolyn.will Voor freelance ICT'ers is het moeilijk om aan het werk te blijven, zo meldt Computable. een toenemende mate van concurrentie zorgt ervoor dat ze hun tarieven - naar beneden - bij moeten stellen. Voor veel freelancers is dit echter niet makkelijk; doordat ze minder opdrachte...

The looming dementia epidemic and health care crisis

Dementia will be the next big epidemic with Science Daily reporting global research which shows that the number of people affected by Alzheimer's and dementia is growing at an epidemic pace. Let's be quite clear about this. It's a trend that will cripple the world's economies ...

Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis

Be careful about this talk of recovery. Marc Courtenay at Seeking Alpha presents us a list of commentators saying this rally has a while to run yet. That's dangerous talk. Regardless of this talk, the reality is September-October are always dangerous times for the market. Lehman Brothers,...

Up to 1000 more bank failures

Despite all the talk about good economic news, the plight of the US banks highlights the fundamental crisis confronting the world's biggest economy. And it's getting worse. According to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) statement , the number of "problem" banks...

Hedge Fund Journal’s Funds of Hedge Funds/ Newedge Release Top 50 Research

The top 50 funds are certainly managing less, but they are not out of the game. Smaller funds, of course, are facing an even tougher time. Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research (HFR) has reported that over 200 funds of hedge funds liquidated in 2009. This is a significant increase on the last qua...

Green motor racing

The motor racing industry knows it has to do something about the climate crisis. To put it bluntly, the sport won't survive because there won't be enough fuel. So now as The Independent reports, teams from Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain have been competing at a track in ...

Facebook's recruitment campaign

Earlier this month, I did a blog entry on Facebook's acquisition of Friendfeed. Clearly, Facebook plans to become something like the Huffington Post of social media. But as I pointed out in that post, it won't just stop at being a large scale aggregator. Facebook, I suspect, has Googl...

No relief from foreclosure mess

The news on housing foreclosures isn't getting any better. In fact, it's getting worse. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, one in every eight U.S. households with mortgages was either in foreclosure or behind on its mortgage payments in the second quarter of this year. Th...

Loan deals Italian style

It's a sign of the times and just the kind of mouth-watering economics story that anyone would love. The Guardian reports that cash strapped Italian food producers plan to put up expensive wines and dry-cured hams as collateral on bank loans. Italian banks already store massive wheels of...

Innoveren loont

©Rodrigo Cayo Als ondernemer moet je jezelf continu vernieuwen . Op kleine schaal - denk aan het up to date houden van je website en je huisstijl - maar ook op grote schaal, bijvoorbeeld door nieuwe diensten en producten te ontwikkelen . Voor kleine ondernemers is het niet altijd makkelijk ...

Accounting fee growth slows

...continued to soar and firms were still growing. While the rest of the world suffers with the global crisis, accountants continue to rake it in....

Cocaine dollars

It's nothing to sniff at. US currency is drug money, literally. We now have reports has found that 95% of dollar bills in Washington DC bear traces of cocaine. Significantly, that's up 20% over the last two years. In other words, more people are using dollar bills to snort the st...

Zelfstandigen hebben het moeilijk

Steeds meer zelfstandigen komen in de problemen . Bedrijven bezuinigen en huren steeds minder vaak freelancers in, waardoor het voor hen moeilijker wordt om aan opdrachten te komen. Bovendien zorgt een toenemende concurrentie en een verminderd werkaanbod ervoor dat de tarieven van veel fre...

Alwand Vahan Bracelets

Designer Fine Jewelry Alwand Vahan was born in France in June 1940. Graduated from the Paris jewelry and design school called "La Chambre Syndicale de la Bijouterie, Joaillerie et Orfevrerie," Sasha designed a short time for Hermes before beginning his career in the United States. He ...

Family to lose home because of seven cents

Pres. Barack Obama wants mortgage companies to do everything in their power to prevent families from losing their homes to foreclosure. You can bet he's not thrilled with a story that ran earlier today in the USA Today. The story highlights the plight of a Michigan family that is losing its ho...

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Spooks and the financial crisis

American intelligence has been monitoring the global financial crisis and its fallout. In answers to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence , the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that global meltdown is a significant issue for US intelligence operatives. "While ...

US mortgages underwater

The Washington Post reports that the US Government is considering plans to take hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled loans out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stick them into a so-called "bad bank" and create a new structure to support the home-loan market. That sounds fine i...

Islamic banking booms

Back in May, I did a blog entry looking at how the downturn would create a number of competitive forces that would damage the banking sector. One was Islamic finance. The emphasis in Islamic finance on risk-sharing and prohibition of speculation has a fresh resonance given the failures of Wes...

Running out of oil

... Yesterday, I did a blog entry looking at how the world was heading into a new crisis, this one with oil, and how it would be worse than the credit crunch. Now The Independent runs an intervie...

Another oil shock?

... Are we headed for a new crisis, one that's potentially a lot worse than the credit crunch? We're talking about oil. As Scott Nyquist writes in BusinessWeek , we are looking at a second ...

Airline losses soar

Several weeks ago, I looked at how airlines around the world would be losing loads of money because of the financial crisis and swine flu. According to industry forecasts, they were set to lose $9 billion this year. That would be just a start. There is no relief in sight. Not surprisingly, t...

Supply chain video: Managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 5)

Here comes another video from PMMS Leadership in Procurement a Global Perspective in Troubled Times. This video is the fifth part of Professor Rob Handfield's presentation from the 2009 PMMS Biennial Executive Forum in Montreal Canada which related to manage supplier risk in the crisis time. H...

DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding tops 3PL ranking

Armstrong's recent survey "U.S. and Global Third-Party Logistics Market Analysis" has generated a new ranking of 3PL logistics players based on revenue which is quite interesting to review (See the list here ). DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding, not surprisingly is on the...

Goldman Sachs in the gun

At the beginning of this month I did a blog entry looking at Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone asking whether Goldman Sachs had been behind every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Now The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Senate is probing Goldman Sachs and Deu...

Poor Bernanke

Bernanke got poorer in the market meltdown. As Bloomberg reports, the former economics professor's assets fell 29% last year as the financial crisis eroded the value of his assets. Or did they really go down? Bloomberg reports: "The filings, released by the Fed yesterday, show Ben ...

The looming credit card disaster

Credit card debt is the canary in the coal mine. It is the signal that tells us which way economies are tracking. And those signals are looking bad. USA Today reports that credit card debt is racking up faster for older Americans, aged 65 and older. And they're spending it on necessities,...

Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs

US taxpayers did well when Goldman Sachs repaid US Treasury's TARP loan of $10 billion. According to Bloomberg , they made a return of 23% which is not too bad at all in any market, let alone this one. But that's just lunch money compared to Warren Buffett's return. As the New Yor...

Bernanke on the US economy: read between the lines

You really have to wonder what planet investors are on. Bloomberg reports that 61% of investors say the world economy is on the mend and give Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke top marks for combating the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Similarly, The Wall Street Journal h...

Roubini: the recovery will be ugly

Stocks might be rising with economist Nouriel "Dr Doom" Roubini saying that the worst of the financial crisis is over but the optimism seems to be misplaced. First, his comments don't seem to be that different from him telling Bloomberg earlier this month that the recession wi...

Home construction starts rise. Another sign of a recovery?

Is the long housing slump nearing an end? I suppose that depends on whom you ask. But there are a growing number of signs that, while things definitely still are not rosy in the housing industry, we may have reached the bottom of the market. Hitting bottom is good; Once a market has done that, ...

Paulson, Goldman Sachs and the four tiers of US Government

Hank Paulson's testimony before Congress raises serious questions about the governance of US government. His testimony, combined with the record quarterly profit of Goldman Sachs, confirms a suspicion I've had for some time about the US Government. It has four tiers: executive, legis...

Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers

Much has been made of the extraordinary profits posted by Goldman Sachs with its best quarter since the end of 2007 when the recession was just beginning. As Phillip Silitschanu, a senior analyst with Aite Group told reporters : "Goldman really is in a class by themselves." But the...

Booming business for executive island retreats

One industry that seems to be expanding at the moment is rehab services for burnt out executives. The BBC reports that the private island of Osea near the Essex coast in England is doing a roaring trade as a haven for executives shell-shocked by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depre...

Recession reshapes America

I have often talked about how the recession will reshape America's geography where cities like Detroit will turn into ghost towns. Without saying as much, demographer Richard Florida seems to be saying that in his latest book, an extract of which is republished here . Florida argues that ...

Let's Retire F1's Bernie and Max Before it's Too Late

If ever we needed reasons to get rid of the two clowns who are running, and just about destroying F1, Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosely continue to offer disgusting opportunities. First, Max gets caught with his pants down, playing Nazi sex games with paid floozies. Then Bernie reveals to a Daily...

Supply chain video: If you want to re-negotiate the terms with suppliers, the moment is now!

If you're looking for cost reduction or get better prices in your supply base, the moment is now. This is the main message in this part of the presentation by Professor Rob Hanfield. Typcally the options which company have in front of them include the following: - Discuss the payment terms - O...

Will California drag down the United States?

California has entered the new financial year in crisis with a budget deficit of $26.3 billion, up from $24.3 billion, because of the ineptitude of the legislature in missing a deadline and political incompetence of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The state has an unemployment rate of 11.5%, hig...

Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 2)

This is the second part of the video presentation from Professor Rob Handfield in the PMMS Leadership in Procurement from the 2009 on supply chain risks in this economic downturn. In this part, he highlights that a charactaristic of high performance in not simply laying off people and go for radical...

Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)

PMMS Leadership in Procurement: A Global Perspective in Troubled Times was an event organized some while ago in Montreal Canada. Since there are some interesting videos from the presentations in this event on the subject of supply chain management and risk reduction in general, I decided to share so...

July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum

... is a growing industry focus for venture capital and development funds: Despite the current credit crisis, overall fundraising for cleantech has remained steady in 2008, with 29 funds raising a total ...